On corporate wireless devices, the battle is intensifying with smartphones and wireless-enabled PDAs all vying to get into the corporate communications environment. Push-email and more powerful and rich operating systems are now allowing mobile professionals to remain in touch with their corporate network.

STORAGE AND NETWORKING OVERVIEW

Storage and networking are the next categories in the awards this year and both markets have seen positive growth and development.

In storage software is the big growth area today. Enterprises are buying more replication, backup and archiving storage software, market analyst IDC found in its most recent quarterly storage software report released in March.

In the fourth quarter of 2005, the storage replication software market grew 21.7 percent, representing the largest storage software segment growth, IDC said.